I wrote this on the train leaving hardcoretraceur's house at 4:45 in the morning the Monday after NYPK. Some of these are inside jokes/references, others are more universal:

What I learned at NYPK -Why hardcoretraceur is so hardcore. Or at least stupid. (The shoulder/dragging thing) -Why 3-day jams are both a horrible, and fantastic, idea. -No matter how perfectly things are planned, and how many redundancies are in place, things will still get screwed up. Tough luck. Figure it out and keep on moving. -Accidents and pain happen: It is how one responds to these that matters. -'Nam was "crappy." (Crazy vet on the light rail) -"Don't get high, go do something." (Crazy vet again) -There is something to be learned from _everyone_, regardless of skill, politics, or path. -Be strong to be useful. -Running with the pack is better than staying with the flock. -Make no excuses not to train to your limit. -In order to break the apple, you must first break yourself. -Pyro's shoulder looks like Ravioli. It isn't supposed to, however. -What you put in is what you get out. -When discussing which is worse, slavery or the Holocaust, check for cameras. -With a positive mind, one can have an iron will. -There is always something you can train. -Anyone who suffers from friends who don't support their love for parkour, but train anyway, deserves some serious respect. -Drama, while it should have been left at High School, often isn't. -Try to leave Drama in high school anyway. -Stop talking and move. -And my last quote, which I've decided is my new personal motto: Once you hit rock bottom, start chiselling.

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In short, there is no place for the extreme sports "Go Big or Go Home" attitude in Parkour.

When I started "parkour," (i put that in quotes because of the following) I really didn't know what it was all about. I just saw the techniques, I saw the videos, and I went out and did some really stupid stuff that could have seriously injured me. For a little while (and really, a VERY little while) the group I train with were all about "Go big or go home."

I realized, pretty quickly (thankfully), that this was not what parkour was about. It isn't "Go big or go home." It isn't the X-Games. It's not about "jumping off of s%@*." I was damn lucky I didn't break both my legs. As it is, I bashed my hip on a screwed up precision (though that wasn't a "go big" thing, it was just sandy and I didn't check my surfaces (ANOTHER lesson learned)), and to this day a year and a half later, it still gets sore if I lay on it for too long.

Don't trust me on this. Don't blindly take my word for truth, or lies. Read. Read the articles stickied on the .Net forums. Read the articles on APK. Read the articles on NYPK, Colorado PK, any of the other matured community sites (meaning not www.ihartpkandjumpingoffastuff.com). Read and THINK about it, ponder it, meditate on it - whatever on it - until you realize WHY parkour is not about "go big or go home."

I think too quickly seasoned traceurs tell new people that big drops aren't what it's all about, but they don't give any reasons (other than the obvious health/safety reasons which a lot of people apparently don't care about.)

Which is the best methods for dealing with people that correspondences aren't as much interesting as many with other people, and that you don't feel there is a fit, but they are really nice and want to connect with you ?

One thing I've learned is that you never know who is going to rise in the world.

Just writing to a random stranger on the internet shows a decent amount of tenacity on someone's part. Most people won't do it. So you're already filtered down to people who will put themselves out there a little bit and take a bit of action.

I know a guy who applied to work for me in a job when he was still in high school some years ago. I couldn't say yes to that - didn't want to deal with labor law, signing a contract with a minor (including IP assignment, work for hire... I don't know, seemed like it would have been a nightmare) - but he seemed like a good guy, so I took him out to lunch at a little Greek restaurant near my office and just asked what's going on his life.